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Advanced Nurse Practitioner Thoracic Surgery
Closed for applications on: 11-Sept-2023 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 11-Sept-2023 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Harefield Hosptial
- Town
- Harefield
- Postcode
- UB9 6JH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £49,178 - £55,492 p.a Inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Cardiothoracic
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment of cardiothoracic patients to an advanced level. This must include engagement, consultation and negotiation with patients at the centre. At the development level, the post holder will be working towards this whilst undertaking the necessary education requirements.
The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of practice within the field of cardiothoracic surgery and the scope of practice as defined by the individual post’s role outline. This is provided separately.
This definition therefore requires that health and care professionals working at the level of advanced clinical practice will exercise autonomy and decision making in a context of complexity, uncertainty and varying levels of risk, holding accountability for their decisions.
The post holder will have/be working towards a Level 7 award at Post Graduate Diploma (PgDip) or full Masters (MSc) in Advanced Clinical Practice, with an approved Higher Education Institute (HEI). The Trust may recognise and accredit prior learning and practice depending on the currency and quality of the evidence within the four pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice in support of equivalence.
Closing Date: 10th September 2023
Interview Date: 26th September 2023
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Working for our organisation
On 1st February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals became part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust – a truly once-in a generation development. Together, we are taking our first steps towards our vision of creating a brand-new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease in patients from pre-birth to old age. We are developing some exciting plans and we want you to join us – so come and help to change the shape of healthcare for our heart and lung patients world-wide.
Royal Brompton & Harefield hospitals are the largest heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We are a partnership of two specialist hospitals which are known throughout the world for their expertise, standard of care and research success. We are passionate about what we do and the patients we serve. We are an equal opportunities employer and our patients are rich in diversity. We recruit to ensure we build a similarly diverse mix across our workforce. We are a values led organisation and we are rightly proud of our world class reputation and our people. The CQC visited the trust in October 2018 and our Surgical Directorate was rated as outstanding. Our priority is to deliver excellent patient care and we are proud that the CQC has recognised our services and awarded us this rating.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
4.2 Leadership and Management
- Lead on and participate in key developments relating to inpatient care so that high quality patient focused services are promoted.
- To lead and manage junior staff within the service as appropriate, providing effective guidance, supervision, mentorship and performance management.
- Work with the Lead ANP for the cardiothoracic wards and Human Resources Department in the recruitment, selection, appointment and retention of staff.
- To work in close partnership with the Lead ANP, Surgical Matrons and Service Manager to ensure relevant national initiatives and targets in relation to specialty are met.
- To inform the service of changes in clinical practice which may influence service delivery, business planning and strategic reviews to support the delivery of meeting agreed objectives.
- To critically apply clinical expertise in appropriate facilitatory ways to provide consultancy across professional and service boundaries.
- To influence clinical reasoning and decision making to enhance quality, reduce unwarranted variation and promote the sharing and adoption of best practice.
- To pro-actively initiate and develop effective relationships, fostering clarity of roles within teams across the Trust.
- To evaluate own practice and participate in multi-professional team and service evaluation, demonstrating the impact of advanced practice on service function, effectiveness and quality, i.e. outcomes, experience and safety.
- To actively seek feedback, involvement and engagement with patients, carers, their families, service users and colleagues in the co-production of service improvements.
- To demonstrate team leadership, resilience and determination, managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable.
- To continue to develop practice in response to changing population health needs and engaging in thinking of the future and new treatments.
- To constructively challenge others, escalating concerns that may affect patients, carers, and colleague’s safety and well-being.
- To utilise advanced communication skills acting as a prime educator of other staff on own area of clinical expertise and on the role and scope of the service.
4.3 Education
- To critically assess and address own learning needs, developing a personal development plan that reflects the breadth of ongoing professional development across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice.
- To engage in own supervision, mentorship and performance review to continually demonstrate learning and development in the advanced role.
- To engage in self-directed learning at an advanced level, critically reflecting to maximise clinical skills and knowledge as well as own potential to lead and develop care and services.
- To advocate for and contribute to a culture of organisational learning to inspire future and existing staff.
- To support the team to build capacity and capability through work based learning and inter-professional learning.
- To act as a role model, educator, supervisor and mentor seeking to instill and develop confidence and capability in others.
- To teach / deliver core or specialist training to the multi-professional workforce.
- Lead and participate in education and training programmes within the specialty service and develop training packages as required.
- Motivate, develop, support and identify training needs for department staff.
4.4 Research and Quality Improvement (QI)
- To clinically engage in research/ QI activity, adhering to good research/ QI practice guidance, so that evidenced based strategies are developed and implemented to enhance quality, safety, productivity and efficiency.
- To evaluate and audit own and other’s clinical practice.
- To critically appraise and synthesise the outcome of relevant research and QI evaluations using the results to underpin own practice and to inform that of others.
- To adopt a critical approach to identify gaps in the evidence base, alerting appropriate individuals and organisations to these and how they might be addressed.
- To identify potential need for further research/ QI to strengthen evidence base.
- To disseminate best practice research findings and quality improvement projects through appropriate media, e.g. presentations, peer review, publications.
- To facilitate links between clinical practice and research through proactive engagement and networking.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse Band 7 - Post Graduate Diploma (PgDip) or Masters (MSc) qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice or HEE accepted equivalence
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced assessment skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience as an advanced nurse practitioner with extensive cardiothoracic surgical nursing experience
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katie Shiner
- Job title
- Lead ANP
- Email address
- [email protected]
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